Course description
Integrated Assessment (IA) provides a comprehensive, easily navigable and unified approach for both training and therapy staff, allowing them to assess human movement and joint function systematically. Quantify and classify movement aberrations and find the mechanism for atraumatic/overuse injuries, leading to efficient therapeutic interventions. IA is accompanied by the Integrated Patterning course, which teaches focused interventions for movement issues.
It systematically assesses the joints of the upper limbs, lower limbs, and spine in all three planes of cardinal motion (sagittal, coronal, and transverse/rotation), both individually and in the context of how they perform together, which is vitally important since our patients do not move in isolation.
IA is taught together with Integrated Patterning (IP), which systematically teaches how to address evert movement aberration identified in the IA. It teaches targeted and hyper-effective mobility, competency and capacity exercises to establish uniarticular control in every plane, in addition to exercises which build component movement between neighbouring regions and then the entire body so that the changes we make in our patients and athletes are noticeable and useable in their sport or vocational pursuits.
3 days, 2 courses (IA and IP)
IA (Integrated Assessment):
- Why do we need to assess movement (as in what does it give us that an orthopedic exam/palpation/etc does not)
- Specificity and nature of movement deficits
- Primer on research on movement assessment
- Regional interdependence/dynamic systems theory
- Movement quality and single loop feedback control
- Overload, rate of force, and tissue injury
- Organization of the IA
- Scoring and utilizing the IA
IP (Integrated Patterning):
- Why do we need to treat movement (as in why should we be focusing on facilitating movement patterns versus generic single joint exercises)
- The science of mechanotherapy (what happens when you perform treatment on someone)
- Organization of the IP
- Interventions used in IP
- Irradiation and independent articular control
- Dose response in the context of neurological and physiological adaptation
- How to utilize IP
- Using the IA and IP together to guide treatment
Course breakdown
11 hours online learning, to complete prior to the seminar.
This component details an overview of the assessment, how to utilise it, the various interventions you will learn over the weekend, and how to use Integrated Assessment with Integrated Patterning.
In-person:
Friday 8am-12pm – Integrated Assessment Upper Body Module
Friday 1pm-5pm – Integrated Assessment Spine Module
Saturday 8am-12pm – Integrated Assessment Lower Body Module
Saturday 1pm-5pm – Review IA (we watch a full assessment and critique it together) and begin Integrated Patterning
Sunday 8am-12pm and 1pm-5pm – Integrated Patterning
Who should take Integrated Assessment and Integrated Patterning?
Doctors, Chiropractors, Physiotherapists, Massage Therapists, Athletic therapists/trainers, Strength and Conditioning coaches, Personal trainers, Fascial stretch therapists
Lead Instructor
Dr. Jason Pajaczkowski
CEO & Developer/ Lead Instructor
Dr. Pajaczkowski holds Baccalaureate degrees with Summa Cum Laude honors in Life Science from Queen’s University, Human Anatomy from the National University of Health Science, and a Doctorate in Chiropractic from the National University of Health Science. He completed a two-year post-doctorate residency in sports medicine, a three-year post-doctorate course in orthopedic rehabilitation and a two-year study in acupuncture. He also has a vast amount of experience with athletes at the amateur, collegiate and professional level.
He has held positions with, lectured to, and consulted with multiple teams in the NHL, NBA, NFL, MLB, CFL, AFL and NFC, in addition to working with several Canadian Olympic programs. Dr. Paj is also the personal doctor and S&C programmer for many professional athletes and celebrities across North America.
Jason has authored chapters in and contributed to multiple sports medicine textbooks, as well as many articles in various peer- reviewed journals in addition to being a reviewer himself. Dr. Paj is also a researcher for Active Release Techniques (ART), and was lead instructor for approx 20 years. He has been fortunate enough to lecture throughout North America and Europe at various scientific conferences in addition to teaching Integrated Seminar Series worldwide.
Check out their website for further information: https://integratedseminarseries.com/integrated-assessment/
On completion of this course, you will be a certified ISS practitioner, and will be a listed practitioner on their website.